Tag Archives: 2013 elections

Evan Wolfson Endorses Christine Quinn

Unlike Dustin Lance Black and George Takei, Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson actually lives in New York City.

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Yet Another Weiner Incident [UPDATED]

UDPATE: The Weiner campaign has released a longer video of today’s confrontation in which the Orthodox Jewish man heckling him can be heard slamming Weiner for being “married to an Arab.” UPDATE NOTE: The video below, which was picked up by numerous sites, was posted by blogger Jacob Kornbluh and it is not known if he edited out the “married …

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Dustin Lance Black Endorses Quinn

Quinn’s campaign is heavy with celeb endorsements this week. Both Black and George Takei, it should be noted, live in Los Angeles.

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George Takei Endorses Christine Quinn

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NEW YORK CITY: Bill De Blasio Widens Lead To Possible Runoff-Proof Position

The top line above is the latest poll result in the New York City mayoral race. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has skyrocketed to 43 percent in the latest mayoral race poll, an astonishing climb that puts him past the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. The poll of likely Democratic primary voters from Quinnipiac University released one …

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NEW YORK CITY: Eliot Spitzer Slams Scott Stringer Over 1996 NAMBLA Vote

The campaign for New York City comptroller took an especially ugly turn yesterday when the lawyer for former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer slammed rival candidate Scott Stringer for a 1996 vote Stringer made as a state assemblyman against the revocation of NAMBLA’s non-profit status. According to the New York Daily News, NAMBLA registered with the state under the name …

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Tweet Of The Day – Zack Ford

Zack blogs for Think Progress.

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NYC Voting Guide

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HomoQuotable – Josh Barro

“The next mayor of New York, if he or she is to do a good job, will have to say ‘no’ a lot. Only Lhota gave the correct answer: No, you do not strand thousands of New Yorkers for 90 minutes in a futile effort to herd two cats whose lives we are inexplicably prioritizing over the rats who are …

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Today’s New York Daily News

Kitten-gate, now in day three.

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Dead Heat In NYC Comptroller Race

In more surprising polling news, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has wiped out former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s big lead in the race for NYC comptroller. The entire political and media world has jumped on Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s bandwagon, helping him poll-vault from 19 points down to dead even in just two weeks,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the …

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Bill De Blasio Soars In New Poll

Well, maybe there won’t be a runoff after all. If there was any question that Bill de Blasio is the mayoral race’s new front-runner, there isn’t any more. A new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University has the city’s public advocate with 36 percent of the likely Democratic vote, placing him within reaching distance of avoiding a widely-expected runoff election. The …

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Headline Of The Day

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Tweet Of The Day – Bill De Blasio

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Celebrities For Bill De Blasio

Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon, Martha Plimpton, Kathy Najimy, Alan Cummings, Lady Bunny, Cynthia Nixon, Steve Buscemi, Russell Simmons, Chris Noth, and a few more I recognize but can’t name.

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Rudy Giuilani For Joe Lhota

Giuliani recorded this clip for Lhota a couple of months ago, but an apparently new ad buy now has his message appearing at the front of many YouTube clips.

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New York Post Endorses Quinn & Lhota

Christine Quinn today earned a newspaper hat trick as the third of New York City’s three biggest dailies joined the New York Times and the New York Daily News in endorsing her. (Like the Times did on Saturday, the Post has also endorsed Republican front-runner Joe Lhota, the former head of the MTA.)  But the Rupert Mudoch-owned Post cannot resist …

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New York Daily News Endorses Quinn

The New York Daily News has endorsed Christine Quinn by calling her the right person to continue the Bloomberg era. Which is pretty much what her detractors have been warning about. The Bloomberg era will end with crime lower than it has ever been, employment at a record level, neighborhoods reborn, the schools rescued from a culture of failure and …

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Sparks Fly At NYC Mayoral Debate

Everybody seemed to gang up on new frontrunner Bill De Blasio at last night’s Democratic mayoral debate. Most analysts are saying that Christine Quinn turned in one of her strongest performances, however she continued to slam De Blasio’s wife for allegedly attacking her for not having children, a charge angrily denied by the De Blasio camp, which pointed out that …

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VIRGINIA: Ken “Sodomy” Cuccinelli Trails In Just Released Gubernatorial Poll

Virginia state Attorney General Ken “Sodomy” Cuccinelli is trailing Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a gubernatorial poll released today. McAuliffe has a 48 – 42 percent lead over Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the race to become Virginia’s next governor, according to today’s Quinnipiac University poll, the first survey in this race among voters likely to vote in the …

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